A Long Way Gone By Emily Bronte

A Long Way Gone By Emily Bronte

1567 WordsOct 27th, 20157 Pages

Gustavo Leon
Kathryn Overbeck
ENC 1102
October 28, 2015
A Long Way Gone
Emily Bronte and Paul Dunbar
Have you ever had that feeling of wanting to free yourself from something, breaking the wall that holds you back, cutting the string that won’t let you go on and be free? Emily Bronte in her poem “The Caged Bird” and “Sympathy” by Paul Dunbar portray their feelings in their lyric poems. Bronte was born in 1818 in Yorkshire, England. She lived during the end of the romantic period, which made a huge impact on her writings. Romanticism was “an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual 's expression of emotion and imagination…” (The Free Dictionary, Romanticism). In addition to being mentally ill with enochlophobia, which means that she was frightened or scared of people and crowds, she was also oppressed by the general idea or style of living in which women at this period of time couldn’t publish under their own name. Paul Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872. He also lived during the romanticism period but toward the end of it and beginning of the realism time period, which was mainly focused on attention to detail and to show the right now of life (The Literature Network, Realism). He was the first African American who produced lyrics for musicals. His father was a soldier during the Civil War to free the slaves, making Dunbar very deep in this subject. Both…

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, published by Sarah Crichton Books in New York in 2007, tells the haunting story of Ishmael Beah, a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War. The book begins in January of 1993 in Ishmael’s small village called Mogbwemo, located near Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone. A Long Way Gone addresses a plethora of geographical issues such as refugees and population movements, child exploitation, and most of all: war. Each of these issues directly affects Ishmael, the autobiographer…

In the introduction of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, he writes, “There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn’t until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country” (Beah 1). During this statement Beah says that he is completely oblivious to the war around him. These people living in Sierra Leone had adapted to the war to the point where their…

A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah had a really tough life throughout his childhood and teenage years. In his literary work, A Long Way
Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah uses symbols to underscore his central theme of oppression and/or
freedom. The three symbols he used to underscore his central theme of oppression and freedom was Ishmael's AK-47, his
cassette tapes, and the drugs he used.
Ishmael's AK-47 was the most important symbol that Ishmael Beah used to underscore…

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, tells of the experiences in his intense journey through Sierra Leone during the outbreak of war. Beah had to learn to survive the harsh outcome of the war, resulting in the loss of those whom were close to him, family and friends, and trust in people. The book has a recurring theme of nature and the natural world. In the book, the world at night, as well as the moon, serves as both a safeguard and a bringer of bereavement.
As a boy, Ishmael…

disappointment, but never lose infinite hope” (“Martin” Brainy). This quote connects to the book A Long Way Gone, which is a true story that involves the life of Ishmael Beah. Ishmael was living a happy life in Sierra Leone, at least until the civil war broke out. Then, like other civilians, he was forced to run for his life, becoming separated from his family and later losing them to the rebels. He later found a way to be rehabilitated and regain his childhood. He once again learned how to love, which he…

A Long Way Gone tells the story of a boy residing in Sierra Leone who loses his innocence at a young age and manages to overcome his traumatizing events through story telling. In Ishmael Beah’s riveting memoir, A Long Way Gone, Beah explores the idea that reminiscing upon joyful memories and loved ones when undergoing distress, allows children to be able to recover from their loss of innocence through the use of imagery, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. Evidently, Beah is seen throughout the story…

Reflect
During my reading of the Biography a long way gone by Ishmael Beah, there are many character developments shown of him and a few of his acquaintances based on the setting and situation that they are in such as the deaths and traumatic events happening to their loved ones. There are also a few themes I found present while reading the first half of this book such as: Survival, this theme is almost constantly present after the rebels start attacking nearby villages. Another is life and hope…

A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah was an innocent boy who enjoyed playing football, swimming in the streams, and even started a rap and dance group with his friends and older brother. The group discovered their love for rap music from old cassette tapes of O.P.P, Run D.M.C, and the Sugarhill Gang. Ishmael and Junior, along with their other friends cherished these few hip hop and rap cassette tapes. Ishmael constantly carried these couple tapes on him at all times. They choreographed dance routines…

This summer, I chose to read A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah for my nonfiction book. I chose to read this book for a very good purpose. My entire life, I have been told that I am very fortunate to have the luxuries that I have every day. I knew this was true and that I was very lucky, but I never really understood the full truth of how the other people lived; the people that were not as fortunate as me. This book gave me a very good insight to the daily struggles of living in a poor, dangerous…

often found in people involved in hard times such as war. Soldiers have to hope that they will make it home to their families everyday. Ishmael Beah understood what it was like to have hope in terrible situations. When Ishmael wrote his book “A Long Way Gone” he was able to show how he had hope when he lost his family, when he went to New York and when he tragically lost hope when he was in the war.
Ishmael went through losing not only his siblings, but also his parents. At the very beginning of…